"Canary Yellow" · Deafheaven

484 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 21:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
484
LENGTH
21:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 158, 162 and 166, and 51 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
"CANARY YELLOW" · BAR 354
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

51 fills to learn, played 176 times: bars 7, 13, 19, 25, 29, 30 and 170 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 29-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 60-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

47 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

484 bars across 24 sections: 186 keep time, 176 are fills, 85 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 337-348.

PART U
PART Y
PART BN
PART BU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesBAYUBUBN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Canary Yellow"?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is "Canary Yellow" hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

484 bars, about 21:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 115 exercises over 30 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in "Canary Yellow"?

51 fills to learn, played 176 times: bars 7, 13, 19, 25, 29, 30 and 170 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 484 BARS ANALYSED
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